While heaving breakfast at the Kitano (fruit and yoghurt) I read in the newspaper about a Jewish revival in Poland without Jews. This is rather old news, but one sentence struck me: “Poland is suffering from Jewish phantom pain.” My novel Phantom Pain was already finished and I still didn’t have a title (the working title was Lying) when I stumbled upon Phantom Pain.
It doesn’t come as a big surprise to me that Poland is suffering from Jewish phantom pain, but I’m glad this knowledge is becoming more and more widespread.